Senior MEL Officer Application

The Senior MEL Officer is responsible for all MEL activities, reporting and supporting all ILGA World staff and consultants in their activity planning.
This includes, but is not limited to

Programme, Project, Initiative, and Activity Monitoring

• Improve, review, and oversee the execution of the MEL framework of ILGA World.
• Support all staff to apply new and proven approaches to monitoring, evaluation, and learning through training and technical support.
• Establish and administer a project management tool that includes a planning calendar, input collection and review, checkpoints, and integration of all activities.
• Produce, in partnership with the Senior Management Team and the Fundraising & MEL Manager, an annual plan to present to the Board and external partners.
• Support the Senior Management Team and organisation in the development of a strategic plan and annual planning processes.

Impact Data, Case studies, and Good Practices

• Conduct Impact Data collection activities on all programmes, projects, initiatives, and activities of ILGA World, including, when relevant, 6-month, 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year follow-up activities with beneficiaries of ILGA World’s actions.
• Produce high-quality impact reports, on quarterly, annual, and strategic plan period bases, for the organisation that meet or exceed donor requirements.
• Author external reports, case studies, discussion papers, briefs, and other appropriate documents to tell of the story of ILGA World’s successes and learning, in consultation with the communications team.
• Support the Fundraising and MEL manager in building cases for support and giving campaigns, in collaboration with the Communications team.
• Collaborate with the Fundraising & MEL Manager to implement a donor management system.

Evaluation

• Research baseline data for ILGA World and produce baseline reports or inputs to MEL Frameworks, logic models, and performance measurement tools.
• Implement mid-term, and final evaluations, to ensure a standard of data quality across outputs, ensuring continuous improvement through real-time MEL feedback into ongoing programmes, projects, and results towards the strategic plan.
• Oversee the procurement of external evaluators with the Senior Management Team, Fundraising & MEL Manager, and the Board.
• Act as the point of contact with external consultants related to MEL activities.

Learning

• Contribute to the development of the strategic plan with coordination of inputs, scheduling consultations and workshops, liaising with external consultants, developing discussion frameworks, and compilation of the final document.
• Working from the existing planning, monitoring, and evaluation cycle, to design a suitable learning and reflection model with the Management Team.
• Support both team and individual learning processes, which leads to capturing learning outcomes to advance the attainment of objectives and goals as established in the annual work plans and the strategic plan of ILGA

Relationships with colleagues

ILGA World values creative and inclusive approaches to work and management that have been achieved through cross-service area working and the participation of staff at all levels in the organisation. Staff have line management arrangements and specific key relationships which are detailed in their job descriptions, but will also need to work collaboratively with their colleagues in order to achieve their agreed targets and outcomes to the required standards.

General

• Actively contribute to promoting and achieving the organisation’s objectives
• Ensure that all activities are carried out with full regard to policies on diversity and equal opportunities
• Ensure compliance with such laws and regulations as may be applicable to the operations of the Service Area
• Undertake all duties in compliance with health and safety regulations and legislation
• Undertake other duties that may be reasonably required from time to time.